Rieti Meeting

The Rieti Meeting is an annual athletics event at the Stadio Raul Guidobaldi in Rieti, Italy that takes place in late August or early September. Previously one of the IAAF Grand Prix events, it is now part of the IAAF World Challenge.

It was first organized in 1971 based on an idea by Sandro Giovannelli, today's member of the IAAF Competition Commission.

World records

Over the course of its history, numerous world records have been set at the Rieti Grand Prix.

World records set at the Rieti Meeting
Year	Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality
1982	Mile	4:17.44	Maricica Puică	Romania
1983	1500 m	3:30.77	Steve Ovett	United Kingdom
1992	1500 m	3:28.86	Noureddine Morceli	Algeria
1993	Mile	3:44.39	Noureddine Morceli	Algeria
1996	3000 m	7:20.67	Daniel Komen	Kenya
1999	1000 m	2:11.96	Noah Ngeny	Kenya
2007	100 m	9.74 (+1.7 m/s)	Asafa Powell	Jamaica
2010	800 m	1:41.01	David Rudisha	Kenya

Men's meeting records of the Rieti Meeting
Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Ref.
100 m	9.74 (+1.7 m/s)	Asafa Powell	Jamaica	9 September 2007
200 m	19.85 (+0.6 m/s)	Wallace Spearmon	United States	29 August 2010	^[1]
300 m	31.93	Karol Zalewski	Poland	7 September 2014	^[2]
400 m	44.21	Michael Johnson	United States	9 September 1990
800 m	1:41.01	David Rudisha	Kenya	29 August 2010	^[3]
1000 m	2:11.96	Noah Ngeny	Kenya	5 September 1999
1500 m	3:26.97	Hicham El Guerrouj	Morocco	8 September 2002
Mile	3:44.39	Noureddine Morceli	Algeria	1993
2000 m	4:49.00	Vénuste Niyongabo	Burundi	1997
Two miles	8:13.40	Moses Kiptanui	Kenya	1995
3000 m	7:20.67	Daniel Komen	Kenya	1 September 1996
5000 m	13:04.43	Daniel Komen	Kenya	3 September 2000
110 m hurdles	13.01 (+0.8 m/s)	David Oliver	United States	29 August 2010	^[4]
400 m hurdles	47.91	Samuel Matete	Zambia	1992
3000 m steeplechase	8:00.54	Moses Kiptanui	Kenya	1997
High jump	2.38 m	Igor Paklin	Soviet Union	7 September 1986
Pole vault	5.96 m	Brad Walker	United States	2005
Long jump	8.45 m	Larry Myricks	United States	9 September 1981
Triple jump	17.54 m	Khristo Markov	Bulgaria	1987
Shot put	21.00 m	Paolo Dal Soglio	Italy	1 September 1996
Discus throw	68.38 m	Luis Delís	Cuba	2 September 1984
Hammer throw	82.62 m	Koji Murofushi	Japan	9 September 2007
Javelin throw	84.26 m	Lars Hamann	Germany	13 September 2015	^[5]
4 × 100 m relay	39.76	Gianfranco Lazzer Mauro Zuliani Luciano Caravani Massimo Clementoni	Italy	1979
4 × 400 m relay	3:03.55	Walter McCoy Mike Franks Darrell Robinson Mark Rowe	United States	1988

Men's meeting records of the Rieti Meeting
Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Ref.
100 m	10.81	Irina Privalova	Russia	1992
200 m	21.88	Irina Privalova	Russia	1993
400 m	49.02	Jarmila Kratochvílová	Czech Republic	2 September 1984
800 m	1:56.29	Janeth Jepkosgei	Kenya	9 September 2007
1500 m	3:56.18	Maryam Jamal	Bahrain	27 August 2006
Mile	4:17.44	Maricica Puică	Romania	1982
2000 m	5:30.39	Maricica Puică	Romania	1985
3000 m	8:30.25	Vivian Cheruiyot	Kenya	9 September 2007
100 m hurdles	12.64 (+0.5 m/s)	Sally Pearson	Australia	8 September 2013	^[6]
400 m hurdles	53.34	Sandra Glover	United States	7 September 2003
3000 m steeplechase	9:13.92	Ruth Bisibori Nyangau	Kenya	6 September 2009	^[7]
High jump	2.06 m	Stefka Kostadinova	Bulgaria	1987
Pole vault	4.74 m	Fabiana Murer	Brazil	29 August 2010	^[8]
Long jump	7.19 m	Heike Drechsler	Germany	1991
Triple jump	14.94 m	Tatyana Lebedeva	Russia	2008
Shot put	20.77 m	Valerie Adams	New Zealand	9 September 2012	^[9]
Discus throw	66.12 m	Sandra Perković	Croatia	8 September 2013	^[10]
Hammer throw	76.57 m	Anita Włodarczyk	Poland	8 September 2013	^[11]
Javelin throw	66.64 m	Natalya Khoroneko	Belarus	7 September 1986
4 × 100 m relay	44.97	International team: Andrea Lynch Liliana Cragno Leleith Hodges Jacqueline Pusey		1975

^ "200 Metres Results" (PDF). www.rietimeeting.com. 2010-08-29. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2010-08-30.
^ "300m Results". www.rietimeeting.com. 7 September 2014. Retrieved 9 September 2014.
^ "800 Metres Results" (PDF). www.rietimeeting.com. 2010-08-29. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2010-08-30.
^ "110 Metres Hurdles Results" (PDF). www.rietimeeting.com. 2010-08-29. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2010-08-30.
^ "Javelin Throw Results" (PDF). livecache.sportresult.com. 13 September 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 January 2016. Retrieved 14 September 2015.
^ Diego Sampaolo (8 September 2013). "Fast middle-distance races and four meeting records in Rieti – IAAF World Challenge". IAAF. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
^ "3000 Metres Steeplechase Results" (PDF). www.rietimeeting.com. 2009-09-06. Retrieved 2009-09-06. ^{[dead link]}
^ "Pole Vault Results" (PDF). www.rietimeeting.com. 2010-08-29. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2010-08-30.
^ "Shot Put Results" (PDF). www.rietimeeting.com. 9 September 2012. Retrieved 12 September 2012.
^ Diego Sampaolo (8 September 2013). "Fast middle-distance races and four meeting records in Rieti – IAAF World Challenge". IAAF. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
^ Diego Sampaolo (8 September 2013). "Fast middle-distance races and four meeting records in Rieti – IAAF World Challenge". IAAF. Retrieved 10 September 2013.